recession

It’s a recession they say What does that mean to us today? It means that thousands are unemployed And finding that their credit cards are null and void A father stealing at a convenience store Just so he could feed his daughter a little more A mother and son sleeping under a bridge Because the payments weren’t made on the mortgage Grandparents raising their grandchildren Because mother’s out stripping Father’s out selling Older siblings out learning People committing suicide Because they can’t handle the expenses that come with living life Up and down our stocks are going Money spending faster than water is flowing They were worrying about a second depression Rather than worrying about the people’s expressions So much pain in those desperate eyes In a country that promised that it would provide Maybe we need to throw out capitalism Since it’s causing so much chauvinism The poor are getting poorer While the rich are getting richer But somehow they make it seem like were stitched into the same seam

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I've been watching the news and I've been hearing about the economy, so something im me wanted to write about the miseries of the economy and what we're really facing.

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